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Nominate them for NPR’s 50 Great Voices TODAY! Do you choose your audiobooks by reader rather than author? Then you know the power of the perfect voice! Deadline for nomination is TODAY Oct. 15th. Here are the details from the NPR website <www.npr.com>:
In January 2010, NPR will launch a year-long exploration of 50 of the [...]

Wow. The New York Times, in a Sept. 13 article by Andrew Adam Newman, reports on a group of audiobook narrators & volunteers spearheaded by voice actors Diane Havens and Kathleen Keesling, who recorded the entire H.R. 3200 – over 1,000 pages of legal lingo clocking in at just under an entire day of listening. [...]

I must admit to trepidation about the authorized new Winnie-the-Pooh book Return to the Hundred Acre Woods by David Debenedicts. But the video of Jim Dale in the recording studio reading the book’s Exposition is calming the rumbly in my tumbly a bit.  Click here to find out more about the book from the Penguin Group website.

As the  Odyssey Honor voice and the 2009 Audies Award winner for Best Solo Female Narration for Curse of the Blue Tattoo, Katherine Kellgren’s talent has been featured here before. But I am so thrilled that Ms. Kellgren has taken time away from the mic to answer my “Inside the Audiobook Studio” questions below.
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Quick! How do you pronounce The Sword of Shannara? If you’re narrator extraordinaire Scott Brick, there’s no guessing. Read Scott’s blog post on how he compiles an audiobook glossary with the aid of a Radio Shack telephone recorder. I am always fascinated with the research that narrators do to make sure that each word is [...]

Mo Willems & daughter Trixie are our special guests today, as Weston Woods delivers an extra-special “Inside the Audiobook Studio.” Paul Gagne, Director of Production, recorded a fantastic audio interview with Willems, multiple Geisel Medal & Caldecott Honor recipient, and Trixie, her father’s co-star in Weston Wood’s 2007 Carnegie Medal-winner Knuffle Bunny. If you’ve ever [...]

I’ve mentioned the AUDIOBOOKS discussion group before, but want to give the online community another shout-out. Click here for how to sign up and join in the discussion of your favorite titles & narrators! The conversation has been lagging a bit, but I’m doing my part by recommending one of my all-time favorite audiobooks [...]

In honor of Comic-Con, watch superhero legend Lee record his Feedback comic book for Reading for the Blind & Dyslexic, the nation’s educational library serving people with print disabilities.

OMG – this is the best book trailer I’ve seen yet: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters from Quirk Classics I loooved the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies audiobook – currently available as download-only from Audible, not until October on CD  from Brilliance. Total strangers wondered about my sanity as I strolled down the sidewalk [...]

Audiobook fans, mark your calendars now: Monday 7/13, 3:30-5:30pm, McCormick Place West in W-470b. This is a free event, no ticket needed. Grab your seats early, as last year this was a standing-room only event -I even spotted a few Newbery-award winners sitting on the floor! The Odyssey Award recognizes excellence in the production of [...]